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...Harold C. Urey, University of Chicago atomic scientist...
Eventually Allison changed his mind, of course. When a big U.S. development company sent an expedition up the Amazon to explore the fabled area, he signed on for the trip. It just happened that Heroine Christine Barna was along, looking for her husband, a lost scientist. River of the Sun is Novelist James Ramsey Ullman's story of their expedition into the jungles of the Amazon...
...Such careful preparations are not enough to keep the River flowing smoothly. Though it also is a Book-of-the-Month choice (for January), the story soon turns as turgid as the widest reaches of the Amazon itself: the expedition breaks down, fever rages, the natives want to quit. Scientist Barna is found, but he wants merely to live in peace with the natives so that he may expiate an old sin. Even the cast of characters seems to have escaped from the rolls of an old jungle thriller: a gigantic U.S. Negro, wanted for murder, who has found...
...seems for the best in the best of possible worlds. Nonetheless, they have their trials. For one thing, two of the girls have slipped out of the dormitory and disappeared into the night. Another bothersome fact is the existence of old Mr. Rock, a distinguished scientist who lives in a cottage on the school grounds with his granddaughter Liz, a cat named Alice, a goose named Ted and a pig named Daisy. The Misses Edge and Baker want Rock off the place so they can have his cottage. A third vexation: Sebastian, one of the instructors, is making a fool...
Comedy & Fable. A school party for the girls, with the spinsters in charge and old Scientist Rock enjoying the adulation of the students, becomes comedy, character study and charming fable all in one. In a brief, seemingly unambitious book, without spelling anything out, Green gets a great deal said, and more understood, about what people are really like. The querulousness of old age, the cunning and hardness underneath girlish innocence, the selfishness that sparks a lot of human behavior, good and bad, are all explored without an explicit statement about any of them. Even the pall of living under...